OREANDA-NEWS. October 07, 2010. Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky met with Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin, who arrived in Minsk to attend a meeting of the Coordination Commission for the formation and operation of an integrated transport system of the Union State.

During the meeting the Belarusian head of Government remarked that Belarus and Russia vigorously discuss the development of transport systems, including the development in the Customs Union and the Union State.

“We’ve made several decisions regarding the relocation to external borders. We back the matters that we need to regulate on the home market. We are satisfied that traffic passes our union border without hindrances,” Sergei Sidorsky said.

In turn, the Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said the transport authorities of Belarus and Russia have come up with a draft plan to set up a united transport system in 2011-2012.

“We will ask the governments of Belarus and Russia to approve this plan. We are starting to look into the reformation of our transport complexes, into the unification of tariff policies and will be getting closer to joint projects,” said Igor Levitin.

He also said: “I am very pleased to be in Minsk and to sign a very significant document with my counterpart — the agreement on the relocation of transport control to the external border of the Union State”.

“We’d been talking about it for a long time. Transport authorities were earmarked to be the first ones to embrace integration. With this step we showed the readiness to integrate our transport systems. But we will go further — into the Customs Union and the Single Economic Space,” said the Russian Transport Minister. He added that although the relevant negotiations are not simple the sides still find mutual understanding.